Breads & Breakfasts

Making your own sourdough bread requires patience and plenty of time. Creating your starter will take up to one week--although you can opt to use commercial starters, making your own will give the...

Keeping eggs together when poaching prevents many from attempting to use this method for cooking. Another problem encountered with poaching eggs: fishing the cooked eggs from the poaching liquid....

Miso is a paste that's made from fermented soybeans. It's recognized for offering such health benefits as providing crucial minerals like zinc, added protection from certain cancers and enhancing...

Nothing warms the tummy or starts your day out better than a great breakfast! At a time when people are cutting back on dining out ans spending, here's a really fast & easy way to dress up...

Boiling an egg should be easy but sometimes the most simplest of tasks becomes the most challenging! Have you ever boiled eggs and when you peeled them found them not to be done inside? Or...

Hashbrowns are many peoples favorite thing for breakfast or dinner. This recipe will show you how to make the perfect crisp hashbrowns every time. It is not very hard to make this tasty recipe,...

There really aren't many ways you can hard boil an egg. Its just a simple task that takes very little of your effort. Hard boiling eggs can be fun to cook. Plus they create a healthy and yummy...

Are you hungry in the morning? Want an easy to cook breakfast idea that only takes a few minutes?

Did you grow up on the ultimate breakfast comfort food? But now you can't find it in your local stores? This food product is produced in the Midwest and hard or impossible to find in other...

Yeast is the main ingredient in charge when it comes to bread making. It is a microorganism that produces air bubbles when it reacts with sugars. Those air bubbles are essential in making a dough...

Storing hard boiled eggs properly and for the right amount of time is important to avoid having the eggs spoil. Although salmonella is destroyed during the cooking process, the porous shells are...

Traditional bread making relies on starters made of flour, water and wild yeast gathered from the air. Though the bread making process takes longer than it would with store-bought yeast, bread...

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. WHAT AGREAT BREAKFAST TREAT! MAKE IN ADVANCE, GREAT TO GRAB AN HEAT UP FOR THOSE ON THE RUN BREAKFAST. THE KIDS WILL LOVE THEM.

It is not hard to cook a hard boiled egg. In fact once the basic steps are known it will be something that is made for breakfast, lunch or a snack. Cook a hard boiled egg perfectly and eggs will...

Bread is life for much of the world, and a staple in the diets of most societies. It is inexpensive to make and requires only a few basic ingredients to turn out a tasty, versatile loaf. One...

Poach an egg in the microwave? Yes this can be done without blowing the door off the microwave!! This is an easy way to Poach Eggs for Breakfast, Luch or anytime! If you have a tendency to break...

Sourdough bread has a tangy taste, chewy crust and spongy texture. These characteristics are the result of baking with a sourdough "starter." In contrast to other types of bread making, where...

Hard boiled eggs - pretty easy,right? Well, suprisingly, there are folks that have a hard time getting that job done - the eggs usually come up either not done enough, or 'too' done. Using time,...

Eggs are a good source of protein, relatively inexpensive to buy and make a delicious sandwich. Deviled Egg Sandwiches use few ingredients, are quick to prepare and can be enjoyed for lunch or...

Yeast is a single-celled fungus that has about 1,500 species. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the variety used for baking to make bread rise. This leavening agent combined with flour and water...

A boiled egg may seem like an easy thing to prepare, but this simple cooking process has a surprisingly high margin for error. The potential for mistake lies in the difficulty inherent in getting...

This is a side dish hat can go with many of the southern food dishes like collard greens, cabbage, black eyed peas or you can just eat it as a quick snack. It is a little different from making...

I followed the easy instructions to make my own starter but then found that actually using the starter to make fresh, homemade bread by hand was far too time-consuming. Playing around with my...

Being from the South I love Southern food and how can you talk about Southern food without mentioning cornbread. Cornbread comes in dozens of variations including jalapeno cornbread, cornbread...

It's not as easy as you think. It's your morning motivator. It's a cup of Java. The good stuff. Here is how to make it the great stuff. In this article I will be discussing how to use a French...

Boiled eggs are staples at breakfast, as garnishes for other dishes, and as the main ingredient in that star of the picnic, deviled eggs. How long it takes to boil an egg depends on two factors:...

Have you ever wanted to make a hardboiled egg, only to find the yolk turns that yucky grey color? Do you ever wonder how people make the perfect egg? Well now you too will have the secret. It's...

Eggs are a versatile source of protein that can be scrambled, fried, poached or hard or soft boiled. Boiled eggs can be the hardest to make because you can't see how done the egg is until you take...

The use of a sourdough starter is one of the time honored ways to make bread. Before commercial yeast was available, sourdough started was considered one of the most valuable commodities a...

Eggs are a cost-effective source of protein. Here are some tips for enjoying an egg a day. FYI: To read my other cooking articles, please see the Resources section below.

Ever wanted to create that perfect hard boiled egg. Well now you can. Just follow the simplest of steps and be ready to eat it that day not later.

This may sound like a wierd method to making omelettes but trust me when I say it works and its fun.

Hard boiled eggs are quick and easy to make and can be used in various ways. To help make peeling easier here are some tips for peeling them.

Homemade bread is much better than most storebought breads. You'll need a few simple things like flour, water and yeast, and you'll want an adult to help deal with the hot oven. A bread dough...

Place the eggs into an empty pot and fill until 1 inch of water is above the eggs. Remove the eggs, place a lid on the pot and bring the water to a full, rolling boil. Place the eggs into the pot,...

In this lovely recipe you'll learn how to make delicious hot and lovely hard boiled eggs.

Eating healthy with all the food choices available is not easy nowadays. If you belong to people who change their eating habits to whole foods, then you probably like to make your own hearty...

A great, easy bread recipe that requires no kneading! My kids love to eat this fresh from the oven with honey and butter drizzled over the fresh cut slices.

This is a simple way to make Rice Cereal to feed your 6-12 month old as they begin to eat more solid food. This is an easy recipe using infant rice cereal.

Although it might seem obvious to some, cooking perfect hard boiled eggs can be a challenge if you’ve never been shown how to do it. The technique I am going to explain may not be considered the...

Practice egg safety. Boiled eggs--whether soft, mollet or hard--are just one of the many ways to cook an egg. But there are a few things to know before boiling eggs in any way. Eggshells are...

Freshly baked bread has a number of things going for it. It has no preservatives. You know exactly what ingredients went into it. Kneading the bread gives your arms a mild workout and your mind a...

Hearty warm breakfast recipe for 2 to 4 persons. This article is rated "Moderate" because of the poached eggs.

This is actually my boyfriends concoction. We were hungry one night, probably well after 1 a.m. He said he was going to make some oatmeal...so I was all for it. We went downstairs and the...

Eggs have been a food source for man since prehistoric times. Dating almost as far back as the first consumption of the egg has been the question, “How do you make the perfect hard-boiled egg?” ...

Instant oatmeal can have a strange taste and texture to it if you don't make it just right. Here is how you can make instant oatmeal taste better.

Many people make the mistake of adding water to the yeast that is too hot therefore killing the yeast causing bread to fail to rise properly, by following these simple steps, you will have...

There are so many yummy recipes that call for hard boiled eggs. Hard boiled eggs may seem easy enough to make, but don't always come out the way that you expect. Here are some tips to help you...

Cooking grits has almost taken on as an art form these days. But learning how to cook grits that are lumpy does take a little practice and patience. Grits are a southern dish that has been...

An egg poacher is a piece of metal cookware with a frame that fits into a saucepan and holds special cups for poaching eggs. Egg poachers are available with one to six egg cups. To poach an egg in...